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  • It is part convience and part necessity. My entire infrastructure is currently x86 and introducing ARM into it seems like a hassle, if i develop and test software on my x86 based workstation i expect it to just work then, not having to deal with either compiling to ARM or using emulation. Also part of this that currently everything I use runs Arch, which only officially supports x86.

    Which brings us to necessity, my software currently runs with manually written simd instructions. Ofcourse I can write ARM NEON polyfills for these, but again that takes a lot of work.

    So while not impossible to use ARM it currently is a lot of work to use. I’m gonna save that time for when the big riscv migration comes.